And we stand on the brink of the digitization of... everything.
The future is stationary, dear Herr Kappus, but we are moving in infinite space.
Today's operating systems connect users to computers. In the future we will deal directly with information. Operating systems will connect cyberbodies to computers; will allow cyberbodies to dock on computers. Users won't deal with operating systems any more, and won't care about them. Your computer's operating system will make as much difference to you as the voltage level of a bit in memory.
The Internet economy's next leg will be a mad M&A scramble as the great Dot. coms begin picking over the bones of the Hollow.coms. This is going to mean fewer players, less advertising, fewer IPO's, and a movement toward stabilized pricing and defensible market positions.
George F. Colony
Forrester
Research
The future isn't found, it's invented.
Being a change leader requires the willingness and ability to change what is already being done just as much as the ability to do new and different things. It requires policies and practices that make the present create the future.
When just about everybody is convinced that just about anybody can sell just about anything via the Web, when success in the Web economy becomes a foregone conclusion, when confidence leads to overconfidence and then to sheer euphoria, we naturally progress to the next stage of evolution: pure greed and naked ambition.
Evan Schwartz
Digital
Darwinism
Once we admit that there is room for newness — that there are vastly more conceivable possibilities than realized outcomes — we must confront the fact that there is no special logic behind the world we inhabit... We are forced to admit that the world as we know it is the result of a long string of chance outcomes.
Paul Romer
Journal of Development Economics
Not only were we unable to foresee five years ago how advances in information technology would alter the manner in which we do business and create value, but the rate of change is racing ahead of estimates that only a year ago appeared optimistic.
Robert
Shapiro
US Undersecretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs
